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A Physician on the Nile
Eldin
Bedouin Folktales from the North of Israel
A Description of Egypt and Journal of the Famine Years ʿAbd al-LaṭŅf al-BaghdŌdŅ, Translated by Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Foreword by Mansoura Ez-
Yoel Shalom Perez and Judith Rosenhouse November 2022 568pp 3 maps, 50 b&w tables 9780253063830 £69.00/ $80.00 PB 9780253063823 £88.00/ $110.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Library of Arabic Literature November 2022 288pp 9781479820078 £12.99/ $16.00 PB
Collects nearly 60 traditional folktales, told mostly by women, that have been carefully translated in the same colloquial style in which they were told. Accompanying each folktale is a comprehensive ethnographic, folkloristic, and linguistic commentary, placing the tales in context with details on Galilee Bedouin dialects and the tribes themselves.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Beyond the Lines
COVID and Gender in the Middle East
Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon Sarah E. Parkinson
Edited by Rita Stephan
February 2023 304pp 9781477326527 £43.00/ $50.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
January 2023 264pp 4 maps 9781501767142 £20.99/ $24.95 PB
COVID and Gender in the Middle East examines a range of national and localized responses to gender-specific issues around COVID’s health impact and the economic fallout and resulting social vulnerabilities. An essential global resource, this book is the first to provide empirical evidence of COVID’s gendered effects in the Middle East and North Africa.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Drawing on nearly two years of ethnographic research, Parkinson traces shifts in Palestinian militant groups' internal structures and practices during the 1975–1990 civil war and foreign occupations of Lebanon. In the Lebanese setting, this book demonstrates how regionalized differences in Israeli, Syrian, and Lebanese deployment of violence triggered distinct social network responses that led to divergent organizational outcomes for Palestinian militants.
Defying "The Plan"
Fantasmic Objects
Intimate Politics among Palestinian Women in Israel Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe
Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950 Kirsten L. Scheid
September 2022 262pp 3 b&w photos 9780253062505 £25.99/ $32.00 PB 9780253062499 £73.00/ $85.00 HB
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa December 2022 376pp 21 color illus., 38 b&w illus. 9780253064240 £28.99/ $35.00 PB 9780253064233 £73.00/ $85.00 HB
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Palestinian women in Israel are expected to operate even the most intimate aspects of their lives according to what some call "The Plan," which dictates everything from clothing, marriage, religion, and sex to how children are born and raised. The stories in this book trace and unpack settler colonial power at the level of the intimate and native women's various practices of defiance.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Lebanon, the study of modern art—rather than power or hierarchy—has compelled citizens to confront how they define themselves as a postcolonial nation. This book examines the efforts of painters, sculptors, and activists in Lebanon who fiercely upheld aesthetic development and battled for new forms of political being. 1
Losing Istanbul
On Salafism
December 2022 328pp 9781503634046 £22.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503633162 £77.00/ $90.00 HB
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures September 2022 232pp 9781503630352 £52.00/ $60.00 HB
Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire Mostafa Minawi
Concepts and Contexts Azmi Bishara
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
On Salafism offers a compelling new understanding of this phenomenon, both its development and contemporary manifestations. Salafism became associated with fundamentalism when the 9/11 Commission used it to explain the terror attacks and has since been connected with the violence of the so-called Islamic State.
Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of ArabOttoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and women negotiated their loyalties and guarded their privileges through a microhistorical study of the changing social, political, and cultural currents between 1878 and the First World War.
Order out of Chaos
Palestinian Rituals of Identity
Islam, Information, and the Rise and Fall of Social Orders in Iraq David Siddhartha Patel
The Prophet Moses Festival in Jerusalem, 1850-1948 Awad Halabi
Religion and Conflict January 2023 240pp 2 b&w halftones, 7 maps, 1 chart 9781501767944 £25.99/ $30.95 PB
January 2023 336pp 9781477326312 £47.00/ $55.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
An innovative approach to modern Palestinian history as viewed through a study of the Prophet Moses festival from the mid-nineteenth to the midtwentieth century. Drawing on extensive research in Arabic newspapers and Islamic and colonial archives, Halabi reveals how the festival has encapsulated Palestinians’ responses to modernity, colonialism, and the nation’s growing national identity.
Explains why Iraqis turned to the mosque after state collapse. Combining rational choice approaches, ethnographic understanding, and GIS analysis, Patel reveals the interconnectedness of the enduring problem of how societies create social order in a stateless environment, the origins and limits of political authority and leadership, and the social and political salience of collective identity.
Practicing Sectarianism
Staple Security
Bread and Wheat in Egypt Jessica Barnes
Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon Edited by Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian and Nadya Sbaiti
October 2022 320pp 45 illus. 9781478018520 £22.99/ $27.95 PB 9781478015864 £90.00/ $104.95 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2022 272pp 9781503633865 £22.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503631090 £77.00/ $90.00 HB
Explores the process of sourcing domestic and foreign wheat for the production of bread and its consumption across urban and rural settings. Theorizes the nexus between food and security, drawing attention to staples and the lengths to which people go to secure their consistent availability and quality.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Investigates the imaginative and contradictory ways people live and practice sectarianism in their everyday lives, with the ultimate goal of destabilizing sect as a category and sectarianism as a concept. 2
The Book of Travels
The Doctors' Dinner Party
ḤannŌ DiyŌb Translated by Elias Muhanna, Foreword by Yasmine Seale, Introduction by Johannes Stephan, Afterword by Paulo Lemos Horta
Ibn BuṭlŌn Edited and translated by Philip F. Kennedy and Jeremy Farrell Library of Arabic Literature February 2023 256pp 9781479818778 £24.99/ $30.00 HB
Library of Arabic Literature September 2022 468pp 9781479820016 £14.99/ $18.00 NIP
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Combining literary parody with social satire, the book is richly textured and carefully organized: in addition to the use of the question-and-answer format associated with technical literature, it is replete with verse and subtexts that hint at the infatuation of the elderly practitioners with their young guest. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The adventures of the man who created Aladdin. ḤannŌ DiyŌb’s remarkable first-person account of his travels as a young man from his hometown of Aleppo to the court of Versailles and back again, Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub
The Requirements of the Sufi Path
Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered Amerka Jacob Norris
A Defense of the Mystical Tradition Ibn Khald¹n Edited and translated by Carolyn Baugh
Worlding the Middle East January 2023 328pp 9781503633759 £20.99/ $25.00 PB 9781503633285 £73.00/ $85.00 HB
Library of Arabic Literature October 2022 320pp 9781479806331 £24.99/ $30.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub follows the fantastical journeys of the merchants of Bethlehem, employing a magical realist style of writing to recapture the transformative impact of their travels on Palestine and the world beyond.
This book incorporates the wisdom of three of Sufism’s greatest voices and Ibn Khald¹n’s own insights, acquired through his intellectual encounters with Sufism and his broad legal expertise. Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
The Right Kind of Suffering
This Flame Within
Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States Manijeh Moradian
Gender, Sexuality, and Arab Asylum Seekers in America Rhoda Kanaaneh
October 2022 352pp 16 illus. 9781478018810 £23.99/ $28.95 PB 9781478016182 £90.00/ $104.95 HB
January 2023 216pp 9781477326725 £24.99/ $29.95 PB 9781477326381 £77.00/ $90.00 HB
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
Revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the Islamic Republic and recounts the experiences of Iranian foreign students who joined a global movement against US imperialism during the 1960s and 1970s.
When anthropologist Rhoda Kanaaneh became a volunteer interpreter for Arab asylum seekers, she discovered how applicants learned to craft a specific narrative to satisfy the system’s requirements. The Right Kind of Suffering is a compelling portrait of Arab asylum seekers whose success stories stand in contrast with those whom the system failed. 3
Thunderbird
Walking the Land
Book Two Sonia Nimr, Translated by M. Lynx Qualey
A History of Israeli Hiking Trails Shay Rabineau Perspectives on Israel Studies January 2023 312pp 10 color photos, 10 b&w photos, 17 maps 9780253064547 £28.99/ $35.00 PB 9780253064530 £69.00/ $80.00 HB
November 2022 152pp 9781477326930 £12.99/ $16.00 PB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
The Thunderbird trilogy is a fastpaced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who starts in the present and must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers and save the world. In this second installment, Noor finds herself in the year 1177 in Jerusalem, during the Crusades.
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Israel has one of the most extensive and highly developed hiking trail systems of any country in the world. Yet the trail system is almost completely unknown to the millions of foreign tourists who visit every year and has been largely unstudied by scholars of Israel. Walking the Land explores the many ways that Israel's hiking trails are significant to its history, national identity, and conservation efforts.
Youth in Egypt
recent highlights
Identity, Participation, and Opportunity Nadine Sika
Alternative Iran
Contemporary Art and Critical Spatial Practice Pamela Karimi
February 2023 224pp 13 b&w illus. 9781479819539 £22.99/ $28.00 PB 9781479819522 £77.00/ $89.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
August 2022 432pp 9781503631809 £28.99/ $35.00 PB 9781503630017 £90.00/ $105.00 HB
Explores the political world of young people in Egypt, focusing on their experiences under authoritarianism. Drawing on surveys, interviews, and focus groups, Youth in Egypt shines a light on the rising generation of young people that represents Egypt's future and also has significant implications for the broader Middle East and North Africa region.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art, investigating how Iranian artists engage with space and site amid the pressures of the art market and the state's regulatory regimes.
Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
Amazigh Politics in the Wake of the Arab Spring
Crossing a Line
Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression Amahl Bishara
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman
April 2022 272pp 9781477324820 £39.00/ $45.00 HB
June 2022 384pp 9781503632097 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781503631373 £77.00/ $90.00 HB
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
An account of the Amazigh people who took advantage of the Arab Spring to press political demands such as territorial and constitutional claims while rejecting official discrimination and neglect. Today the Amazigh question looms larger than ever, as North African governments find they can no longer ignore the movement’s interests.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Crossing a Line enters the distinct environments for political expression and action of Palestinians who carry Israeli citizenship and Palestinians subject to Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, and considers how Palestinians are differently impacted by dispossession, settler colonialism, and militarism
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Inventing the Berbers
Recording History
The Middle Ages Series March 2022 312pp 4 illus. 9780812225242 £24.99/ $29.95 NIP
June 2022 304pp 9781503631687 £22.99/ $28.00 PB 9781503630567 £73.00/ $85.00 HB
Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa Christopher Silver
History and Ideology in the Maghrib Ramzi Rouighi
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illuminating regional and transnational connections.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Examines the emergence of the Berbers as a distinct category in early Arabic texts and probes the ways in which later Arabic sources, shaped by contemporary events, imagined the Berbers as a people and the Maghrib as their home.
Revolutions Aesthetic
Street-Level Governing
A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria Max Weiss
Negotiating the State in Urban Turkey Elise Massicard
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures June 2022 392pp 9781503631953 £24.99/ $30.00 PB 9781503630581 £77.00/ $90.00 HB
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures May 2022 336pp 9781503631854 £25.99/ $32.00 PB 9781503628410 £82.00/ $95.00 HB
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz alAsad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A Ba'thist cultural revolution sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. Weiss offers the first cultural and intellectual history of Ba'thist Syria.
Muhtars, the lowest level elected political position in Turkey, hold an ambiguously defined place within the administrative hierarchy. Street-Level Governing is the first book to investigate how muhtars carry out their role to provide an ethnographic study of the state as viewed from its margins.
The Essence of Reality
The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia
A Defense of Philosophical Sufism ʿAyn al-QuḍŌt, Edited and translated by Mohammed Rustom
From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period Edited by D. G. Tor and Minoru Inaba
Library of Arabic Literature April 2022 350pp 9781479816590 £28.99/ $35.00 HB
April 2022 350pp 51 b&w illus., 38 maps 9780268202095 £77.00/ $90.00 HB
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
The text is in all likelihood the earliest philosophical exposition of mysticism in the Islamic intellectual tradition. The book takes readers on a philosophical journey which are seamlessly tied into ʿAyn alQuḍŌt’s foundational argument—that mystical knowledge lies beyond the realm of the intellect.
This volume examines the major cultural, religious, political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods.
Excludes Taiwan, Japan, SE Asia & ANZ
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